Consona
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Yea, I know but that doesn't change the fact that music is about the feeling it conveys to the listener. The "skill" required to make it is irrelevant.
The skill is what allows conveying feelings to the listener. It's no coincidence composers more and more often resort to using these stupendously huge orchestras, loud drums and fast ticky tocky high frequency sounds, because that's instant rush of emotions, no skill required. Baaang, boom, boom, an assault on ear drums. It's a biological short cut to grab your attention.
Some 40 years ago, composers used various interesting harmonies (there's like bazillion combinations of tones you can make and every one brings some different feel), clever orchestration and development. Now? Loud drums, loud brass playing octaves or minor chords (because surprise, it takes skill to use complex harmonies for a longer period of time and not sound like you're pulling a cat's tail), endless repetitions of spicc strings that go nowhere. Did I just hear a woodwind instrument there? How did that happen?
Not to mention the ability to work with music to tell a story. The force theme in Star Wars changes for so many times, the melody, the orchestration, etc., to reflect every particular scene. Zimmer's Batman theme does not change during the whole TDK trilogy just one bit. To put things into perspective.
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